The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-09-08

with an increased. thirst and q clammy
kind of a tongue and j. tottering, nervous
cbndition the best thingshe thinks hecan
do for himself is. to have ,semething to
steady his nerves. He does not know any
better. IApplause.11ss I4
The only hope Of salyation Of the com
mon farmer, mot your farmers who repre-
sent the common 1farmer,J the only hope
Of sal1ations Jefs.ahe seomfnons f~aafne1Asof
these, ten states is for them to- find cut
what is best for Them How iaress they
going to doit? Notify this convention
meeting here andecnsidering co-operation
e~o-ordination, stiflization, civilization,
starvation INFLAMMATION. -zTGreat laugh
ter and applause.3 We must go to work
and teach. That is the only salvation.
How is this to be rdone7" There are farm
ers,inpN orth' Carolina who let their lights
shine out. It does not just shine in 4his
own house only, but out the door, and way
down tie road, and a man passing along
can see it as a light set upon the hin, .
! You viii pardon me JUST little. 7
won't, worry your patience. Ihaye been.
at work III q Certain direction ffoorr the last
fourteen yehrs, and.fha1lyw gotta club
together; we got.to reading; we got the
best books and subscribed for the best pa
pers. We have a reading room and a cir
culating library, and they take a paper
published in this city that is a credit to
the south, and to the world, the Cultiva-
tor. We take that as a standard, and we
eread what DIR. Jones,sof Georgia, says on
grass, stock and all these fertilizers, and
we understand it as well as any chemist
Mn the country. Wherever you 60 by one
Of those mems houses, you can feel it as
dash from a tunnel into daylight. You
car see it. What is all the practical good
in all these resolutions, all this tariff ques-
:tion, all POLITICAL discussion? You want
to get to the individual farmers, not
you farmers, for you are the leading
farmers. Your governors selected you
because you are above those around you
the intention of this convention is
for you to 60 home, fire up, and. let your
light shine..out still brighter and better and
help the common farmer. Applause.
He is the man of this whole country. I
know whole counties-Is don't know
whether you have got them in Georgia
on not-where there they have not a hog
that is worth the name of a hog.
] will tell a little story about a hog
killing time that I heard Of in Georgia
onceI It was on bright, frosty morning,
along about the first of January on a very
lively occasion, and they invited in their
neighbors to help at the h~og-killing, and
the women came in to assist and be clever,
and a fire was built up with pine knots,
and it was blazing away and they came in
joFial and jolly to have a day of rejoicing.
They cleaned the hogs and hung EN- up,
and they rejoiced. Breakfast was a little
late and they took more requirements.
Laughter. They felt convivial and kind
Of hungry, and they commenced broiling
some pieces of liver, and they were
standing around in. this joyous condition
when CONSERVATION and alarm fell upon
the entire community-one of the hogs
was missing! How could it come to pass
right there? How could one Of those,
hogs be taken away? And they instituted
an immediate search, and they found that
a cat had dragged one Of those hogs away.
Loud and prolonged cheering.] No
wonder you men are spending millions of
dollars for your meat when we have such
hogs as that.
I have a little remedy to offer-it is to
reach the common farmer. He does not
take these papers. He does not read any
thing. His home is sad and dreary and
lonely I have been there. 1 have stayed
all night there. I have drank coffee that
was so weak it could not stand itself up
in the cup. Laughter. Their rooms are
sad. There. are nc flowers there, no
geraniums there. The girls are skimpy-
Headed and ugly Theboys are ugly; the
old woman was cross; the old man had a
sore tooth, and all was sad and lonely
Now, cannot some hope and help shine
out from the dark, cloud into these places.
You have them everywhere, thousands of
them, Now If we can reach this man,
stir him UP, open his eyes, get him to
thinking. reading. and talking with men
ahd among men, it viii wake that man
up. How are you going tosdopit? The
olly,way is to holdsagriculturaland farm,
els institutes in every State in the
Sputh,1 and pick out your best home
talent and get these scientific men from
Epur. agricultural departments, and go out
there and spend three OIL four days teach.
ing Just like the teacher teaches IN the
Southern schools fApplaase.
sWeGhad an institute v er In Randolph
last week. There is a man upon this
floor now that read a paper there that
thrilled them through 1t was worth
tons upon tons, and it stirred them up. +
insist that everyscotnty IN these Southern
States ought to have an institution like
that. The States ought to- ghelp. In
North Carolina 1t does not cost one cop.
per. If the States and agricultural de-
partments will helps on wills e them